City Journal — w. co-author M. Anthony Mills — Every generation has its defining technology, and every decade, it seems, needs a label. The sixties were the Space Age, the nineties the Internet Age. The seventies and eighties saw the computer revolution. The decade just passed may come to be known as the Facebook Decade…
It’s appalling. The recently-released Bureau ofEconomic Analysis data showed the U.S. GDPcontracted by nearly 3% in the first quarter this year. This should be a four-alarm fire for policymakers to implement policies to re-ignite growth.
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that a“U.S. Ruling Loosens Four-Decade Ban On Oil Exports.” But the headlines have it wrong. The law of the land banning exports of crude oil has not changed.
Pacific Standard: The Science of Society — co-author M. Anthony Mills If the gratuitous advisor from 1967’s the Graduate were to whisper one word of advice into Dustin Hoffman’s ear in 2014, that word would not be “plastics,” but “coding.” From the White House to the halls of academe, calls are growing louder to educate more students…
Brazil’s regulators welcomed Airbnb’s couch-surfing home-sharing solution to the shortage of hotel rooms for World Cup visitors. A lot of U.S. regulators aren’t so happy with Airbnb, and similar Web-centric disruptions to traditional controls and taxes associated with the hotel industry. New York City — and Paris to note another — have mounted legal challenges…
The American, American Enterprise Institute magazine We hear increasingly that technology is making today’s electric utility model ‘obsolete’ and will put its companies into a ‘death spiral.’ Is it possible that so much has changed so quickly?
